My father’s good friend, Yamada Hisashi sensei of the Urasenke Chanoyu Center of New York City has passed. The NY Times did a nice profile of Hisashi-san in 2008. “There is no politics,” Mr. Yamada said. “No talk about who…

I think the only mainstream movie Hollywood has produced with Asian leads is the “Harold and Kumar” series, which is fun on it’s own merit but is not an accurate representation of Asians in America. Skip this movie, it’s awful.